Woman soaking in a bath strewn with flowers, showing a dark ornamental circular tattoo on her upper back.

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Circular design tattoo on upper back in a flower bath

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A woman with dark hair, decorated with small orange flowers, sits in a bath of milky water scattered with hibiscus, sunflowers and other blooms. Her back is turned to the camera and shows a dark, ornamental circular tattoo with fine detailed linework on her upper back. The image is shot from above, with the bath filling most of the frame and the tattoo as a small focal point.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nobody in Sneinton had ever seen a rosette quite like the one Hettie Marsh drew on the back of a seed packet in March. She drew it with a pencil stub while the kettle sulked on the range, a ring of six petals folding into a second ring, and then a third ring of small hooks that caught at nothing. Her mother called it a waste of good card. Hettie called it the pattern for the Harrow Street order, the one that had come back twice because the veil edging looked, according to the widow Crane, like something a spider had been sorry about.

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She spent three weeks at the lace pillow with a dozen bobbins clattering like teeth. The linen thread was so fine it had to be breathed on before it would sit. Every evening she unpicked what she had made the night before, because the second ring kept sliding out of true, and every morning her mother asked whether she meant to finish the thing or wear it. On the Friday she laid it flat under the window and the circle lay perfectly still, as if it had decided to stay.

She sent it to Harrow Street with a note saying only that the pattern was sound. Mrs Crane wrote back a fortnight later, and the letter was short. She had pinned the piece to her good coat and walked the sea wall at Skegness, and a gull had settled on the rail beside her and stayed there until the tide turned. She wanted another, exactly the same, for her sister's stone.

Hettie took a fresh sheet of card from the drawer and drew the six petals first, then the second ring, then the hooks. Her mother watched from the doorway and said nothing about waste this time.